a very warm welcome to the hour here in moscow america's biggest creditor had signed lashes out at washington version of the global economy at risk but not reaching agreement to keep its debt in check. i will still got its investigation concludes the main responsibility to the presidential plane crash in western russia lies with the previous crew that russian air traffic controllers are all safe politics in play. libyan rebels are more on the come all the.

details comedies alleged ties to conduct these regimes are called into question. and they say promises extra troops for the border between serbia and kosovo following the fallout of outbreaks save a controversial expert. coming up next and also out a crew heads to russia's northern capital to sample what's on offer in st petersburg including entertainment good food and luxury accommodations. hello to you i welcome to st petersburg on the space program i'll be exploring the

barriers hotels and restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time to come here growing the glorious summer weather i'm a late evening light and it's one true party town on that night it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget the city offers a vast choice of hotels ranging from comfortable small hotels to actually far star . today i'm sure going into the southeast coast bridge hotel when you arrive know that the hotel will take your passport and your fish registration for you this is standard practice so do worry if they keep your documents for a few hours. times very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date communities. staying here will be an experience you'll never forget. we have a very noisy mixture of course the most coming for the summer top level politicians

top execs their money trends of international companies plenty of tourists from russia finland all over europe if you're visiting the former capital on a budget but she does hotel accommodation insipidus blood can be found at older soviet era who tells them which offer economy cost rooms as well as more comfortable renovated interiors. such a circus and it's time for me to go up to my room even though such rooms are more expensive sometimes. thomas all suites can work out cheaper especially when charged a room instead of a person wherever you decide to stay do your math research for deals and office on the internet. through an expensive breakfast buffets and how many times you might need taxis for example because often you'd be surprised the high end hotels could work out cheaper in the long run. as of more than three hundred rooms there are various luxury apartments and suites like this one here perfect for families and

celebrity entourages they come with several connecting bedrooms and a large living room with kids from the seventy's so what are your goal of eating out is that whereas you can always make the good old trusted carry here it's that. time to eat and we've arrived asked to dress up opens in two thousand and seven this one teacher is one of the brightest newcomers insipidus most restaurant scene pressing rashness many domania features various cuisine. and talent japanese and russian dishes you know maybe three meals as well and also a wide variety of tasty beautiful does there are things that. cooking is advised if you want to eat here soft sofas in pillows easy lounge music an ambience beach to people and simply does blokes who just sky this is the ideal place for dinner after a busy day of sightseeing. now it's time for me to travel through it. all just a burial and

a good thing i love about the city is all the good locations if you do your research take a look on the internet all the local guys you'll find some incredible places new restaurants are popping up every week and teressa here i think has the best location in the city just look at the stunning because i could be drawn behind us and just further down the road you can see the church of the spells blood a go by i'm curious as was the south and cause at solitaire at subzero temps like. wow. absolutely beautiful. a city known for its revolutions over the last ten years there's been a different type of uprising that's on the restaurant and hotel scene times have changed in the former capital now offer some of the best food and lodgings in russia and to discuss the western influence and developments are simply dispensed cultural scene let's meet this week's cast. me very nice to me

so you're the general manager here at the hotel yes and i've been here like since january ok i'll leave in some petersburg and from in russia you know for four years but i came here in the in china. i definitely think that this is my thing so so so every every morning when i wake up i can't wait to hear and start my day so. different hotels and restaurants are opening every single week in the city at the moment you know this is just booming because like when i came here like four years ago there were basically just a few feist store hold us in the mortgage but now we are getting more and more not only for the store but also also for those in some other segments for or for all the old of trouble are swans to compass and he was brick so now it's currently white nights and surely you must see a huge influx of tourists coming to the city. is the greatest actually yeah i know

and it's still a back road i come from from finland from hills and we have exactly the same thing but they have done so pretty joke with the white knights here so so so i don't understand why people chose some spirit is that if it's just because a part of fame i say that but the great job well done great great great p.r. actions marketing acts and this is this is the time of the year to come here if you want to enjoy some. with the speed of light or old you know so i'm regarding cultural activities it seems like the less is absolutely endless from pizza hop to captains pilots to boat trips it's amazing yes that's true but on the other hand i would love to say that the there are no younger generation who comes to experience life here experience like life. they don't even need those excuses that there's a palace next is a mix of the whole though so it's just want to see how the life goes here or they

rather go for clumping you know this is the great city also it's good for all worst most top so while it's wonderful it's great to be all the best of luck with your childhood i thought thank you it was nice to meet you too but the book. will be on and what other hotels and restaurants i was mentioning in sim petersburg the bangkok is there are some great places to stay in the north of capital which weren't going to hold your pocket location hostel situated in the heart of the city of his wonderful views a palace quest from its windows bring prices here something just six hundred roubles that's roughly around twenty jonah's a night the concepts hostel as they call it also both contemporary design and friendly and international atmosphere not only will be given a pleasure the night but as a whole still supports many artistic projects bill's offer advice from the most it can happen even using events in the city. livable scrammed one of our projects is

an occasion hostile god it's a nontraditional city guide featuring the most interesting places in the city you know how millipede man and includes information on where to downs eat and shop and there are all kinds of places from flea markets to gossip stores from two to five star places but the slides i use. when visiting look around for many of the city's yards and many of them you'll find because the restaurants the flow meaning wolf this is so cool living room restaurants. means here is a bit several holes the terrorists are indeed very holy as you're traveling with children there's even a special room for them. next up the new ball cooled twenty two thirty inspired with traveling around the world it's young and if you just owners can create a fashionable place for lunch and also cocktails after dark. the bombing at the venue make amazing drinks and there's also a sweet shop here ten macaroons for takeaway please. that's the

one we're writing on the interior is we wanted the venue to represent room and family come for its prime example the sofa was brought from the flagship should now be taken paris it took a long time to proceed their owner to sell it she didn't understand what we needed the old one down so far for what we believe in power energy and philosophy of furnishings but history. and don't we too bought and cafe is located in a soviet building of the same name meaning consumer services center it's interiors with old furniture resembles the atmosphere of an apartment in the times of the u.s.s.r. during the day there are dishes of russian and your pain cuisine on the menu well at nights the venue turns into a loud and busy my club. next up and we've arrived at our final location the new w. hotel. launched in one thousand nine hundred eight the branson is expanding with over fifty hotels and resorts around the world. if you're looking for stylish

accommodation all find better than the trust to double your best hotel recently and already it's full of the who's who of st petersburg i hired is just as old for us with just one hundred thirty seven rooms the service is impeccable out personal if you do stay here but i do recommend that you bring your credit card. as well as a spectacular rooftop bar and the bliss pool and spa hotel boasts a restaurant called mix. it invites guests to enjoy killing every muscle pieces by linda casts the most of french cooking in the world records meant for the number of michelin stars. st petersburg is amazing cultural historic and ground and we should try our best to harmonize the cuisine with the city spirits through to be tough policy and at the same time reasonably priced to be the best of all of these things and that the of. the fullness of the north is a great city for dining out with restaurants to suit every pocket from humble

backpack is to a list celebrities as for accommodation simply start hotels range from grand historic prophecies to budget many hotels and wherever that may be insipidus back it's ultimately the wealth of culture and history that will amaze you and most of that is true for a. very nice so where do you sleep it's all visit here and say it is back this is you will never fail to disappoint and that's always how we have on this week's program south see you again at the same time next week for more adventures around the former russian capital and so that for me and the rest of the crew from the peaceful and balance of the never read. but i.

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the first woman. america's biggest crime is it's something out of washington proposing the global economy at risk. taking debts and. a forceful bats investigation concludes the main or small. i listened to the presidential plane crash in western russia lines from the polish screen a good russian edge after controllers up also called into play. libyan rebels are moving in the back of moms like ours all around these alleged ties to go down the street she's been killed and to. naysay promises extra chips for the border between us and kosovo following a lot of outbreaks a controversial export. all the. hello

there you're watching the sport here on r.t. this is what is coming up. the managerial merry go round argentina appoints a battery's their new coach while the usa part company with bob bradley. last done deal manchester city complete the signing of argentina's red hot strikers where the old. and a means to games we take a look at one russian girl's dream of making a million things take back some. but first the news that argentina have appointed a new coach for their national football team fifty six year old bella takes over from sergio but said bella had led a studio on tales to be called live it was delivered to doris title two years ago and was due to take charge of algeria in the united arab emirates before parties to

step down last week argentina hoping he can revive their fortunes on the world stage the team got knocked out of the quarter finals of the recent copper america haven't got past the last eight in the last two world cup meanwhile bob bradley has been fired as the coach of the u.s. team after five years in charge of followers it seems lost in mexico in the final of the gold cup although bradley doble record isn't bad with forty three wins twenty five draws and just twelve defeats during his reign you also led the team to the last sixteen of the twenty ten world cup bradleys were close and it is expected to be announced before an exhibition match between the usa and mexico on august tenth. the city have completed the signing of argentina struggle from athletic homered to rid the twenty three year old signed a five the deal saying he believes he has joined a club that will be fighting for trophies every year and city are thought to have paid around sixty two million dollars for the attack and he scored one hundred two

goals in two thousand for games if they could go it's also my. to the country and twenty nine appearances where who is he a gay marriage on his son in law incidentally is expected to be man city squad for the pre-season dublin simple cup tournament this weekend. well in russia spot moscow have added some dutch steel to their midfield netherlands international in them a desire to their earning his new red and white jersey after transferring from iran took part in his first public training session to sparta russia's most successful club despite sitting a full thirteen points off the top spot midway through the premier league season despite that with things looking on the up the club winning three of the last ball games the twenty eight year old who played in last year's world cup final saying football here is a step up from his native land. struggle for two games. just want to buy me and. hold it for i think two more. i get

more interesting to play football i get to the station with the training. with a lot of people from those who are aware the stories about him about the russian. more the players are going to be different. i think the level is more than their oil. elsewhere russian minnows i learn you have given themselves a fighting chance of playing in this season's europa league they drew one one at home with toby in the third qualifying round of the competition in the second tier of russia and have not played in europe ten years so they went behind after just eleven minutes after malik manwell open to the visitors twenty one year old. would i have caught the second half equaliser the second leg is next week. in action after the european pre-season the event is have got their second win in three days at the world football challenge event this time beating cheever's guadalajara one

mill in north carolina it took only twelve minutes for the tally ins to take the lead. and sing after state by the end joining maggie long one nil then finished give it have yet to score in the tournament after b.c. . and face barcelona on august because we number two for you very exalted big club america. once united are looking forward to the chance of getting one back over barcelona united were beaten by the path lands in the champions league final and the side meet again in a friendly on saturday although bassam may change the feel of their younger stars and united could follow suit. where's. the problem they were fantastic if i thought they were. on saturday i would put all my own quips. i would like to.

read your stories. is a really beautiful. you know what i. just want to be. because for the moment to be in the war. or conscious to play is difficult because you want to be the best to be in the war but if you want to. go to make sure you be doing a lot of these mclaren's lewis hamilton was fastest in the first practice session for one burying ground it was a fraction of a second ahead of breadboards world champion sebastian vettel how much in targeting poll for this sunday's race which we believe will be crucial. this is a very difficult because it's constantly called for exploding get it really have british series between each corner to get up behind someone and so it's a little more much more like monaco in a sense but i think this is a track where you need to be a proposition for me to disappear and so we haven't had

a pole position this year so. this weekend is to get our first full well that search to go for former masters champion trevor immelman this ali finding some form after missing the cut in his last six tournaments he leads after the first day of the greenbrier classic in west virginia a south african has a one shot late after carving a six under par sixty four he hasn't been the same player since wrist surgery a couple of years ago thanks for the props on thursday a group of five players behind him including derek brownlee who had a nice chip in here. while at the r.h. open india seeing sean ireland's four major stars his eight under par sixty three gives him a two shot lead going into the second day last roylance big guns british open champion down practice six shots back and u.s. open champion rory mcilroy seven off the pace of though he did produce the shot of

the day yesterday saving the fourteenth from the rough with a spectacular i ran the tree graeme mcdowell is nine shots back and public harrington ten zero with. the upcoming world today championships in paris is an important event hopefuls ahead of the london gangs of russia's bitter caldwell is hoping to accumulate enough points in order to travel next year but only cost would have caught up with her and her hometown of smolensk. when i got a call that it was just a child her mother wanted her to go to a dancing school or take up knitting and then broidery but by her own admission she's always been a sort of its own boy and love to fight it was already all be as though that she would become a professional athlete mom the one of her daughters who have nothing to do with combat sports and send her to a track and field instead. of them to chunk it wasn't when i was sixteen i met a girl who was a wrestler and she took me to a wrestling club for the first time i went there secretly for

a month and my parents had no idea my mom was shocked when she found out she thought this can be the right sport for women but i managed to turn her around when i started winning get our goal is currently ranked number seventeen in the world according to the international judo federation and if she approves her medal world championship in paris she stands a good chance of representing russia in the under sixty three kilogram category and the one that picks all of those names if we try to be among the top fourteen in the ratings in every way category in order to be able to go to the olympic games i think that each of us can win the right to be in london and each has a chance to win a medal against our positions in the ratings are stable. each country will be represented by only one athlete in every weight category at the summer games that's seven for men and seven for women russia has its eyes and getting a place in all fourteen and it's thirty minutes in paris will set apart the winners

and losers. of the world championships in august will be a test stage for our athletes will have an entire year before the olympics in london where we hope to win medals the recent european championships have shown that we have a strong national team a letter from august that's what a third of russia's finest have six days to make good on those promises before getting fighting fit for london twenty twelve. remark offer of r.t. . good luck to her and she will be hoping. hands on one of these medals for next summer's olympic games have been unveiled in london they each way around four hundred grams the biggest and heaviest of any summer olympics but friend of each one shows images of night greek goddess of victory metal work design and david walk ins created the latest medals and says he's pleased with how they turned their. absolute because it was done a great job i mean i don't think. i did my best it's come up.

with the rugby world cup starting in just six weeks time new zealand are aiming for good performances in the tri nations they play south africa in their thirst game of this season's tournament on saturday a new zealand will be missing several key plays though being rested or injured and fly half done carter has been recalled and is one of four changes to the side thrashed fiji in their last outing south africa who lost their only to stray are also depleted for saturday's game is being seen as a chance for new faces to shine in the run up to world cup. competition. but to do that. for you. guys that are for the. more future edges of the school is a good. sport for the moment got more. culture

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